Word: improvisationism
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Charles Mingus has been a pioneer in jazz improvisation for about the last 20 years. As a bass player, Mingus has headed up numerous combinations, every one of them exploring free form in jazz. His performances this week, nightly at the jazz Workshop, will serve as a good indication of...
Caro abandoned modeling and put together steel shapes-girders, plates, tubes-on the floor in a spirit of improvisation, pushing and tilting them around until they "locked" aesthetically. The result was a uniquely conversational and approachable kind of sculpture, quite free from the massy rhetoric of bulge and handmade texture...
The startling pullout by South Vietnamese troops from the northern provinces and the Central Highlands took the world by surprise, and foreign journalists stationed in the country were no exception. Actually, President Nguyen Van Thieu acted with such secrecy that even his Joint General Staff did not know of his...
"The profession of chef is being given its true value," said Paul Bocuse, 49, proprietor and chef of his eponymous three-star restaurant near Lyon. This week Bocuse will be made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President Giscard d'Estaing. In return, Bocuse, together with three...
Loose Ends. Alice is Burstyn's own project. Two years ago, she found Writer Robert Getchell's script and persuaded Warner Bros, to put up a $2.1 million budget for it. She picked her own director, Mean Streets' Martin Scorsese, and helped to select cast and crew...